"It was a job that had me patting down the crotches of children, the elderly and even infants as part of the post-9/11 airport security show."
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"In private, most TSA officers I talked to told me they felt the agency’s day-to-day operations represented an abuse of public trust and funds."
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"We knew the full-body scanners didn’t work before they were even installed."

"Just as the long-suffering American public waiting on those security lines suspected, jokes about the passengers ran rampant among my TSA colleagues..."
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"A fellow officer once returned to O’Hare from a trip to TSA headquarters and confessed that he had run into some complications: Someone realized that his background check had never been processed in the four years he had been an employee."

One thing I left out of that Politico piece: HELL YES airport employees often drink those bottles of alcohol you surrender at the checkpoint

This year, we plan on giving it another go. Articles like Mr. Harrington's will make it easier to plead our case to politicians and the American people for why the TSA should be abolished once and for all.